[ubuntu-in] OT: gmail sms recovery (was leina yar)

[Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2010/4/24 Mallikarjun <mallik.v.arjun at gmail.com>:
> >> On second thoughts had some more questions
> >> 1. What will google do with the mobile phone numbers (general question)
> >
> >
> > I don't think this question is valid. Bcoz, Google has way more valuable
> > information than your mobile number, like all your chats, e-mails,
> browsing
> > habits, and much more. I think you should be concerned about them rather
> > than mobile numbers. Maximum one can do with mobile number is sell to
> > spammers.
>
> true, i agree fully
>
> however its not like if a phone number appears in an email google can
> just take it, in this case we are legally giving it to them.
>
>
Yea, but I still I dont think it is of much use for them...


>
>
>>
> >> 2. Won't the folks cracking an account also start by changing the
> >> recovery information,
> >
> > Mostly one can crack into your E-mail system via recovery options, unless
> > you have obvious passwords like "password123".
> > Once they crack into, you can do very little if cracker changes
> password...
> > but they wont do that. They want to spy what you do.
> >
> > My answer is "It depends on the cracker".
>
> so no really safe options, if i look at what all is in my gmall
> already its quite easy for a cracker to just unplug me and become me,
> absolutely scary, in fact i think i am going to start deleting mails
> and reducing the size of my gmail account. Keep stuff offline
>
>
This topic is going of-topic I guesssssss...

Even I get scared quiet often, the only option left is to buy a domain just
for E-mail purpose...
I have a small do's to avoid scare form crackers, but if Google goes down
over night :P, we are virtually dead literally.

1) Keep passwords irrelevant to our personal Information
2) Be cautious about what you share on Social networking sites
3) Don't use *remember password*  option for banking and important websites
like E-mails systems
4) Install Noscript addon on Firefox
5) Use latest browsers and update regularly
6) *Use your brains and Common sense...*



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